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Dan Curhan This is a blasty, blackened dissonant death metal offering with filthy gutturals, contrasting shouts, excellent dynamics (though never quite clean) and richly diverse songwriting that somehow also manages to be stylistically focused. It ranges from doomy plods to frenetic blasts, covering a wide range of ground between. Hypnotic drones meet riffs in a delightful collision, with occasional samples, and nice, crisp production. Feels fresh for dissodeath!
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1.
Prometheus Believe in what you can see Believe in what you can touch Believe in what you can feel Believe in what you can measure Cognition is achieved by observation Be eager to explore and expand the frontiers of knowledge Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer
2.
Antiparallel Entities The blueprints of life Are circular entanglements Spiral treads descending It's built to divide Built to divide... Nucleotides fill the void Complementary strands of bonds Weak but numerous Merging helical strands Antiparallel entities define who we are Organized in codons, a sequence of three The essence of longevity lies in molecular tools If those are broken, we alter, we mutate, we fade, we die See the extraordinary beauty That life starts from nothing DNA neither knows nor cares DNA just is no design, no purpose, no evil, no good But blind pitiless indifference The essence of longevity lies in molecular tools If those are broken, we alter, we mutate, we fade, we die Nucleotides fill the void Complementary strands of bonds Weak but numerous Merging helical strands The blueprints of life Are circular entanglements Spiral treads descending It's built to divide
3.
AlphaHelix-BetaSheet Oxidoreductase Transferase Hydrolase Lyase Isomerase Ligase Translocase Oxidation and reduction Transfer of functional groups Breaking bonds with the power of water Cleaving bonds with force Transforming Covalent linkage Molecule transport Catalysts accelerate processes To sustain life reaction rate Increased by the lowering Of activation energy Too small to be seen Yet so complex An agglomerate Of twisted helices A creature that was born between ribosomal pleats Bequeathing an enigma of mammoth proportion Sheets upon sheets upon sheets Helices, helices, helices Alpha and beta, alpha and beta Folds that form a three dimensional space Machinery of life Reason of being Child of the maternal ribosome Embedded in Myriads of genes Build from pricks In codes of three
4.
Necrosis 05:14
Necrosis Cells suffer necrosis When exposed to extreme environmental stimuli Adverse and excessive When deleterious mutations encoded in the DNA Result in ultra-structural and morphological features Accompanied by extensive swelling of the cell That contrasts sharply those Undergoing apoptosis Terminal Irreversible Absolute The fate is sealed A passive process not requiring synthesis Minimal energy requirements Not regulated by any homeostatic mechanism The dominant concept That has permeated Stipulated that necrosis Is merely the chaotic breakdown Of a cell under intolerable conditions Terminal Irreversible Absolute The fate is sealed Once triggered, it is inevitable First, intracellular calcium increases Next, calpains become activated Finally, death
5.
Phospholipidosis Cytosolic inclusions of lysosomal origin Caused by inhibition of catabolic processes Lamellar bodies piled with non-degradable cargo Destined to prevail in a dysfunctional state Inherited Induced Obtained Defect Lysosomotropism Drugs protonated and trapped Unable to escape But imprisonment becomes fatality The CAD induced death Derives from the displacement Of interaction between the surface Of ILVs and phospholipase activities Intraluminal vesicles, negative of charge Associate with complexes To ensure order of Lysosomal degradation of material derived From catabolism Hydrolyzed and utilized Cytosolic inclusions of lysosomal origin Caused by inhibition of catabolic processes Lamellar bodies piled with non-degradable cargo Destined to prevail in a dysfunctional state Intraluminal vesicles, negative of charge Associate with complexes To ensure order of Lysosomal degradation of material derived From catabolism Hydrolyzed and utilized
6.
Occam's Razor The law of the simplest explanation Referred to as Occam's Razor Law of parsimony, preferable to complex ones As they are more testable Entities should not be multiplied without necessity Select the simplest Logical elegance By reducing the number Of unsupported assumptions You reduce the likelihood Of being wrong Take pride in your privilege to explore The frontiers of knowledge Logical elegance Occam's Razor is merely a methodological precept and no law of nature To elucidate what is still unknown, one is required to... Form a hypothesis Prepare for observations Evaluate measurements Strife for quantification If evidence sufficiently Supports the assumptions Then the alternative one is rejected And proceed as followed: You will be deleted Abolished Dead No one will remember Existence Denied You won't be heard No escape Tod Schlussendlich
7.
Bias 06:50
Bias No competence No experience No measurements No sagaciousness No rationale Only ignorance And deceptiveness They can't comprehend the truth But have a thousand arguments against it No self-critical examination But a master's confidence With faith in mind claiming To possess the absolute truth In silence you can hear their choir The biased ones dwell in houses of saliva Spit by masters praying with split tongues Convoluted minds in well fed bodies Seeking facts unwilling to concede The biased ones dwell in houses of dejection Shit by masters playing with split tongues Ruminating words with mouths full of sickness Reckless demolition of sanity I call upon thy name, deceiver I call upon thy name, betrayer I call upon thy name, perverter I call upon your name, scum The illusion of wisdom Is the highest danger Emitted by many In the vortex of ill-bred No competence No experience No measurements No sagaciousness No rationale Only ignorance And deceptiveness I call upon thy name, deceiver I call upon thy name, betrayer I call upon thy name, perverter I call upon your name, scum The illusion of wisdom Is the highest danger Emitted by many In the vortex of ill-bred Their vision of enlightenment Has dissolved into darkness There is no ascension Only an endless abyss In silence you can hear the choir The biased ones dwell in houses of saliva Spit by masters praying with split tongues Convoluted minds in well fed bodies Seeking facts unwilling to concede The biased ones dwell in houses of dejection Shit by masters playing with split tongues Ruminating words with mouths full of sickness Reckless demolition of sanity
8.
Diffraction 03:56
Diffraction My eyes are resting on you, my arms still numb City center, 8 P.M., burning lights in carmine red It feels warming like fire, but it won't last that long Your voice, so distant can't reach me anymore November, the leaves wither, behind my every move I hold my heart against the engulfing dark The venoms rush inside our veins In the blink of an eye The scene has turned white Your nails cross my skin Every second we count Is part of the lie How cold are the flames? We're freezing to death The seasons turning Our bodies dying in an ash grove Every second we breathe Is a part of the lie Fears cast into blood and flesh Come into view There must be an end to this Your body, so white Crystals of ice Pale the lips once red The scene breaks apart The venoms rush inside our veins In the blink of an eye The scene has turned white Your nails cross my skin Every second we count Is part of the lie How cold are the flames? We're freezing to death My eyes are resting on you, my arms still numb City center, 8 P.M., burning lights in carmine red It feels familiar as if this happened to me before Your voice so distant can't reach me anymore I'm running, the leaves wither behind my every move I feel like I'm trapped in an endless loop
9.
Amelia 05:18
Amelia A faint glimmer from dying lamps A pale streak of cold grey light Can death part us? No! I'd return to you from the grave The dead who die at peace with god are happy in heaven They cannot return to troubled earth It is only the suicide, the lost wretch On whom sorrowful angels shut the door of paradise Whose unholy spirit haunts the footsteps of the living He refused her Drowning Choking Dying... "Suicides are always handsome", says the painter And then he stands for a little while, idly smoking and meditating Looking at the sharp outline of the corpse And the stiff folds of the rough canvas covering In the sunset Watching the rose-coloured light glow Fade and die upon the river A faint glimmer from dying lamps A pale streak of cold grey light Can death part us? No! I'd return to you from the grave My dear, my dear I believe I promised you to come back from the dead if you wanted me And again these fair arms will be clasped round your neck As they once were, maybe even tighter He refused her Drowning Choking Dying...
10.
Messiah 04:21
Messiah What made you think it was god? Did you not hear what I just said about the brain's ability to perceive what it wants to? In the name of his holy majesty The god emperor of men I thrice judge the excommunicate traitoris By actions, associations and by beliefs You were a dying man on a battlefield Surrounded by dead comrades You were having an epiphany of the futility Of the life you had led Surely you can think of another explanation for this vision, Uriah A more likely explanation that does not require the supernatural? Forceful imposition of beliefs Results in ubiquitous agony Underlying tenets may be sound Yet man leaves shattered worlds and deceivers being crowned I heard the voice of god and saw his face He bore me up and set me into a deep slumber And when I awoke, my wounds were healed I need no other explanation In the name of his holy majesty The god emperor of men I thrice judge the excommunicate traitoris By actions, associations and by beliefs Didn't you just tell me of the bloody slaughters perpetrated by crusaders? Doesn't that make you no better than the holy men you were telling me about? The difference is: I know I am right! It is a dangerous road you travel To deny humanity, a thing will only make them crave it all the more And if you succeed in this grand vision of yours, what then? Beware that your subjects do not begin to see you as a god Forceful imposition of beliefs Results in ubiquitous agony Underlying tenets may be sound Yet man leaves shattered worlds and deceivers being crowned
11.
Desmotes 03:10
Desmotes As your anger and fear fades The angel choir falls silent You break the chains And the palace of glass shatters As you accept the burden of being With a clear mind and open eyes The veil, it falls and the mist clears No spirituality, no mysticism Never cruel or cowardly Never give up, never give in And if you ever are, always make amends No more!

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released August 20, 2021

"Parerga" was created by Dominik in Graz/Austria, between April 2020 & March 2021, except:

Vocals by Dominik (growls) and Georg (screams)
Lyrics for "Diffraction", "Amelia" & "Messiah" by Georg
"Prometheus" by Violență Domestică (All secretions by Dr.Winter, except lyrics)
Mixing and mastering by Craig
Artwork by Dr.Winter / www.teratogen.at

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